> Why don't you notify the author of phttpget and ask for a bugfix?
I'd love to see a bugfix for this issue, you are right I would have
been asked the author first
However I'm wondering why portsnap uses phttpget instead of fetch,
that is available in base.
Luca
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I also tried using HTTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY_AUTH and it did not work,
or maybe I don't get how to configure them:
HTTP_PROXY=host:port
HTTP_PROXY_AUTH=base:user:pass
and either
HTTP_PROXY=http://host:port
HTTP_PROXY_AUTH=base:user:pass
In both cases however the error message is different: now
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
> Have you tried using
> HTTP_PROXY_AUTH variable as per fetch(3) instead?
> added in
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.sbin/portsnap/phttpget/phttpget.c?revision=150461&view=markup
Does not work for me, and looking at the source co
> Certainly not with a dependency on wget, which is not part of the base
> system. Use fetch instead.
>
Right, so I'm wondering why not using fetch instead of phttpget by default.
However I've rewritten everything so that now it allows for the
configuration of fetch or not. The only change is that
I did a little review and now it is possible to specify to use wget or
not using the portsnap.conf file, as well as the option to ingore
certificate checking even if I don't believe this is correct.
Therefore portsnap with this patch could work with either wget or
phttpget, even if I'm not able to
Sorry, back to list.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Alexander Yerenkow wrote:
> Do you aware that if wget tries download from https, and there is
> self-signed certificate, then it fails, and ask for --no-check-certificate
> option?
> How do your patch deal in that case?
It simply does not. A
Hi all,
I was in trouble for a while because I was using FreeBSD behind an
http proxy (a palo alto for what it means) and the portsnap command
was unable to handle updates reporting always "file does not exist".
After digging I found that the problem was in the phttpget command
used internally from
